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We all want Unicode to work, and there is no question that it is the Right Thing (tm) to do, being open, allowing other cultures to join us and use their own writing scheme and all.

The sad truth is that it is actually a huge pain in the ass to implement for most coders, at least in the US and especially in Europe, and I would be really interested to know if it makes things really easier for Asian coders.

Plus Unicode is usually being forced upon us by XML, which is never a nice thing when you are already f

Yes, XML parsers not only tend to die a swift but painful death when they encounter a Latin-1 (or 2 or more) character, even in a CDATA section, but also, at least XML::Parser converts everything to UTF-8, even if the rest of the environment is entirely Latin-n. This is extremely annoying as it adds an extra level of complexity to all applications, and forces people to care about encodings when really they don't want to.